Meet The Team

Professor Salama received his bachelor's degree with honors from the Electronics and Communications Department at Cairo University in Egypt in 1997. In 2000, he obtained a master’s degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University—and in 2005, he received a doctorate from the same university. He was an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2005 and 2008 before joining KAUST, where he was the electrical engineering department’s founding program chair from January 2009 until August 2011. 

Professor Salama’s work on CMOS sensors for molecular detection has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is also the co-founder of Ultrawave Labs, a biomedical imaging company. 

To date, Professor Salama has authored 200 papers as well as 18 granted patents on low-power, mixed-signal circuits for intelligent, fully integrated sensors and nonlinear electronics, including memristor devices.